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The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake got it right when he called Milton a true poet because he was "of the Devils party" even though he set out "to justify the ways of God to men." In seeking to learn why Satan is so alluring, Forsyth ranges over diverse topics--from the origins of evil and the relevance of witchcraft to the status of the poetic narrator, the epic tradition, the nature of love between the sexes, and seventeenth-century astronomy. He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects. Satan emerges as the main challenge to Christian belief. It is Satan who questions and wonders and denounces. He is the great doubter who gives voice to many of the arguments that Christianity has provoked from within and without. And by rooting his Satanic reading of Paradise Lost in Biblical and other sources, Forsyth retrieves not only an attractive and heroic Satan but a Milton whose heretical energies are embodied in a Satanic character with a life of his own.

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Hesiod's Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole embracing both the divine and the human cosmos. After first offering a survey of the structure of both poems, Professor Clay reveals their mutually illuminating unity by offering detailed analyses of their respective poems, their teachings on the origins of the human race and the two versions of the Prometheus myth. She then examines the role of human beings in the Theogony and the role of the gods in the Works and Days, as well as the position of the hybrid figures of monsters and heroes within the Hesiodic cosmos and in relation to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.

Religious poetry, Greek --- Didactic poetry, Greek --- Cosmology, Ancient, in literature. --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Human beings in literature. --- Gods, Greek, in literature. --- Monsters in literature. --- Man in literature --- Greek religious poetry --- Greek poetry --- History and criticism. --- Hesiod. --- Hesiod --- Gesiod --- Geziod --- Esiodo --- Hēsiodos --- Hezjod --- Hésiode --- Hesíodo --- Hesiyodos --- הסיודוס --- Ἡσίοδος --- Knowledge --- Cosmology. --- Cosmology, Ancient, in literature --- Gods, Greek, in literature --- Human beings in literature --- Monsters in literature --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- History and criticism --- Hesiodus --- Cosmology --- Religious poetry [Greek ] --- Didactic poetry [Greek ] --- Cosmology [Ancient ] in literature --- Mythology [Greek ] in literature --- Gods [Greek ] in literature --- Alceste (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature. --- Cosmologie antique dans la littérature. --- Didactic poetry, Greek. --- Dieux grecs dans la littérature. --- Homme dans la littérature. --- Kosmologie. --- Literatura grega. --- Monstres dans la littérature. --- Poésie didactique grecque --- Poésie religieuse --- Religious poetry, Greek. --- Wereldbeeld. --- Histoire et critique. --- Hesiodus, --- Hésiode --- Hésiode. --- Hesiodo. --- Hesiodus. --- Et la cosmologie. --- Theogony (Hesiod). --- Works and days (Hesiod). --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Religious poetry, Greek - History and criticism --- Didactic poetry, Greek - History and criticism --- Hesiod - Theogony --- Hesiod - Works and days --- Hesiod - Knowledge - Cosmology